diff --git a/build-helpers/.gitignore b/build-helpers/.gitignore
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index fef83014eecb14936006b90afc65595dd7d30b77..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-loopy-*-20[0-9][0-9]*
diff --git a/build-helpers/loopy.spec b/build-helpers/loopy.spec
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index 08c0b6efe0efd3ad419b6565fd396c2f805eeab7..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/loopy.spec
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@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-# -*- mode: python -*-
-
-from os.path import basename, dirname, join
-from glob import glob
-
-single_file = True
-
-# This makes the executable spew debug info.
-debug = False
-
-from os.path import expanduser
-
-import packaging # pip install packaging to add
-
-a = Analysis(['../bin/loopy'],
-             pathex=[expanduser('~/src/loopy')],
-             hiddenimports=[
-                "decorator",
-                "appdirs",
-                "packaging.markers",
-                "packaging.specifiers",
-                "packaging.version",
-                "packaging.requirements",
-                ],
-             hookspath=None,
-             runtime_hooks=None,
-             excludes=["hedge", "meshpy", "pyopencl", "PIL"]
-             )
-
-import ply.lex
-import ply.yacc
-
-
-a.datas += [
-  (join("py-src", "ply", "lex", basename(fn)), fn, "DATA")
-  for fn in glob(join(dirname(ply.lex.__file__), "*.py"))
-  ] + [
-  (join("py-src", "ply", "yacc", basename(fn)), fn, "DATA")
-  for fn in glob(join(dirname(ply.yacc.__file__), "*.py"))
-  ]
-
-pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
-
-if single_file:
-    exe = EXE(pyz,
-              a.scripts,
-              a.binaries,
-              a.zipfiles,
-              a.datas,
-              name='loopy',
-              debug=debug,
-              strip=None,
-              upx=True,
-              console=True)
-else:
-    exe = EXE(pyz,
-              a.scripts,
-              exclude_binaries=True,
-              name='loopy',
-              debug=debug,
-              strip=None,
-              upx=True,
-              console=True)
-    coll = COLLECT(exe,
-                   a.binaries,
-                   a.zipfiles,
-                   a.datas,
-                   strip=None,
-                   upx=True,
-                   name='loopy')
diff --git a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner-part-2.sh b/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner-part-2.sh
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index 035634b16072e0188270abd8736dab99ce31dada..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner-part-2.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-set -e
-set -x
-
-VENV_VERSION="virtualenv-15.2.0"
-rm -Rf "$VENV_VERSION"
-curl -k https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b1/72/2d70c5a1de409ceb3a27ff2ec007ecdd5cc52239e7c74990e32af57affe9/$VENV_VERSION.tar.gz | tar xfz -
-
-$VENV_VERSION/virtualenv.py --system-site-packages --no-setuptools .env
-
-source .env/bin/activate
-
-curl -k https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py | python -
-curl -k https://gitlab.tiker.net/inducer/pip/raw/7.0.3/contrib/get-pip.py | python -
-
-pip install packaging
-
-PYTHON_VER=$(python -c 'import sys; print(".".join(str(s) for s in sys.version_info[:2]))')
-pip install git+https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller.git@413c37bec126c0bd26084813593f65128966b4b7
-
-git clone --recursive git://github.com/inducer/loopy
-cd loopy
-
-grep -v pyopencl requirements.txt > myreq.txt
-
-# needed for pyinstaller package to be usable
-echo packaging >> myreq.txt
-
-pip install -r myreq.txt
-python setup.py install
-
-chown -R user /tmp/build
-
-su user -p -c "cd /tmp/build && source .env/bin/activate && cd loopy && ./build-helpers/run-pyinstaller.sh"
diff --git a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner.sh b/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner.sh
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index a7f621b1ef21676898d2283d93f8a54f086e5d9d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker-inner.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-set -e
-set -x
-
-mkdir /tmp/build
-cd /tmp/build
-
-useradd -d /home/user -m -s /bin/bash user
-
-yum install -y centos-release-scl
-yum install -y git python27 python27-python-devel python27-numpy tar gcc gcc-c++ mercurial libffi-devel
-
-scl enable python27 /mnt/make-linux-build-docker-inner-part-2.sh
-
diff --git a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker.sh b/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker.sh
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index fb0cfb587d654698800bfdc827259691bc056fb7..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/make-linux-build-docker.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-# should be run in this directory (build-helpers)
-
-if test "$1" = "--nodate"; then
-  TGT_NAME=loopy-centos6
-else
-  TGT_NAME=loopy-centos6-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
-fi
-
-echo "Generating $TGT_NAME..."
-
-set -e
-set -x
-
-docker pull centos:6
-
-CNT=$(docker create -t -v $(pwd):/mnt centos:6 /mnt/make-linux-build-docker-inner.sh)
-echo "working in container $CNT"
-
-docker start -i $CNT
-
-docker cp $CNT:/tmp/build/loopy/dist/loopy $(pwd) || true
-
-mv loopy $TGT_NAME
-
-docker rm $CNT
-
diff --git a/build-helpers/run-pyinstaller.sh b/build-helpers/run-pyinstaller.sh
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index 50f9d85dccc503be2a2ccfb6c0e3d6aa28216981..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/run-pyinstaller.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-# run this from the loopy root directory
-
-rm -Rf dist build
-
-pyinstaller \
-  --workpath=build/pyinstaller \
-  build-helpers/loopy.spec
diff --git a/build-helpers/upload.sh b/build-helpers/upload.sh
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index 57b8a873b9395954d76a8fd16f8ca9a261e8baa3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/build-helpers/upload.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-set -e
-
-scp "$1" tiker.net:public_html/pub/loopy-binaries/